Prepping

Prepare a survival library

In the event of a total economic or societal collapse the Net and many other sources of information probably are not going to be obtainable. Nowadays folks simply do an Internet search to obtain answers to lots of their problems. If there was no World-wide-web, let a lone no electricity, would you know how to butcher a pig? Or even can applesauce? These skills together with many others are the kinds of things that you ought to be obtaining into a physical survival collection so you might refer to in an crisis. It doesn’t have to become costly or fancy, many books with helpful info are available at discount stores or possibly even yard sales. Don’t discard publications that detail a number of these abilities, possibly rip out articles to increase the survival library or keep the complete magazine. Print the page that you referred to for that yard care question, that way you will have it accessible if you are not able to access the Web.

Basic Survival Skills

Chickens can be butchered to survive if the survival library tells you how.

An excellent place to begin setting up a survival library would be around survival techniques, primarily ones that you might not have a strong history in. Sometimes even if you do know a skill, it could be helpful to keep what helped you learn the skill, either for referring to or to have the ability to swap off to someone who might need to know the technique.

If there is a total economic or cultural collapse this info can allow you to survive a preliminary adjusting period. Unless you’re working at acquiring all these skills it will take a while to adjust to this different lifestyle. Obtaining clean drinkable water is going to be vital to your ongoing well-being and any effective basic survival technique reference should detail at least one way, if not a number of ways, to clean water.

Homesteading Material

Another very good topic to incorporate in the survival library is on homesteading techniques and even more detailed info on gardening, seed propagation and animal husbandry. This particular information will assist you in starting to produce some, if not all, of your own personal foodstuff. Food storage and preservation will also be useful to take care of whatever is produce. This may also become a valuable barter item to trade to get something you cannot produce yourself.

Mechanical Resources

An auto mechanic will have a head start on these skills, but simple car repair skills may help to save a good deal in garage costs, be sure to include small engines and diesel as well. Diesel engines are generally simpler and last longer than gasoline engines. Using proper understanding it’s also possible to operate a diesel engine off vegetable oil, that may be manufactured as a sustainable fuel.

Healthcare Resources

Reference material on health concerns should also be part of a survival library, because healthcare services may be limited like mechanical services. General first aid is an obvious choice, but better reference materials should be included, things such as dental care and medical analysis guides, even internal medicine and surgery. You most likely are not qualified to make a diagnosis but maybe it can guide you to recognize whether you should have more a specialist, if it is accessible.

Building and utility reference material

Doing your own home repair can save a lot of money.

The opportunity to develop and create building materials will be important, particularly if you can do it without power tools. There were eras of wood workers that labored with no help of power tools and some of this knowledge ought to go a long way towards saving work and losing supplies in blunders. Reference material on general building construction plus furnishings and various other detail carpentry might help replace better furniture when resources and time permit. However don’t stop at just woodworking books incorporate electrical and plumbing too. The potential to produce electricity only to power a few lights can be quite civilizing. And plumbing can help in cleanliness and simple needs for water inside a house.

Household chores

Information to show you even simple domestic jobs such as food preparation over an open fire could also be useful. Techniques like, building an earthen oven, or making a straw broom will be valuable skills to have. Artisan breads prepared from an earthen oven can even be a viable small company nowadays. Actually the simplest household tasks will change if no electricity is accessible. Chores that our grandparents did as a youngster without even thinking might be essential to learn again.

Go beyond the survival library

Don’t merely collect the survival library, be sure to evaluate some of it from time to time. Having the reference material available is only partially useful, it’s also wise to attempt to have the right tools along with materials available. You will want hand tools for wood working and tools for working the garden. Garden seeds, from heirloom seeds, will also be necessary to grow a garden year after year. Using open pollinated seeds will enable you to collect seeds from one year’s harvest to plant the following year.

A survival library could teach you how to cook pizza in an earthen oven

This should give you some good ideas on where to start a survival library. Be sure to evaluate your situation, where you live, what you may have access to, and incorporate appropriate resource material. At least one other area that wasn’t included in this list would be self-defense of some sort.